Caravaggio
Bean plays street fighter Ranuccio, his first named role, in the fictional re-telling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, directed by Derek Jarman. The character vies with his girlfriend Lena, played by Tilda Swinton, for the painter’s romantic attentions and is eventually killed by having his throat slit after he reveals that he in turn murdered Lena through jealousy.